Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-06 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1141304953, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In any case, since the latest gnome has also disabled > > the help system (or rather, the most up-to-date manual > > is the accessibility guide for 2.8 and the user&#

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 07:05:34PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anyway, I don't think GNOME bashing is really on-topic here. > > It's not gnome "bashing", it's just airing of a very common gripe with > gnome. If there were indeed a viable fork that imp

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-06 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 13:42 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > GNOME seems to be more and more focusing on the entry-level Linux user, > > and less and less on advanced users. Most unfortunate, its much prettier > > than KDE. > > Indeed. Wasn't there a

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-06 Thread Miles Bader
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyway, I don't think GNOME bashing is really on-topic here. It's not gnome "bashing", it's just airing of a very common gripe with gnome. If there were indeed a viable fork that improved on some bad thing about gnome, but kept the good things, I think

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:42:19PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > GNOME seems to be more and more focusing on the entry-level Linux user, > > and less and less on advanced users. Most unfortunate, its much prettier > > than KDE. > > Indeed. Wasn't t

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-05 Thread Miles Bader
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > GNOME seems to be more and more focusing on the entry-level Linux user, > and less and less on advanced users. Most unfortunate, its much prettier > than KDE. Indeed. Wasn't there a fork of gnome for this reason recently? -miles -- "Most attacks

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-05 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Kevin Mark wrote: > If 'upgrades' > in Gnome are going to remove something, I think there should be > something obvious like a document placed on the desktop saying > 'gnome_2.12.2.removed.features' and explaining what was removed and how to > work around it > based upon the functionality in the l

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-02 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi TB, On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 01:07:03PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > The latest gnome (2.12.2 according to Desktop>About GNOME) has, like > all previous "up"grades, disabled my preference for emacs-style > editing in forms, etc. It used to be in the Keyboard

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Feel free. I don't use gnome and don't really care. I just couldn't > help being amused by a complaint about lack of documentation, under the > circumstances. Yeah, even if irrelevant to the circumstances. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-02 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Thomas Bushnell BSG [Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:22:52 -0800]: > >> Ah, fortunately, the FreeBSD gnome maintainers believe in > >> documentation, so I found the answer there. > > Taken from http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/latest/ : > > Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-02 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Thomas Bushnell BSG said: > Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This one time, at band camp, Thomas Bushnell BSG said: > >> Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > In any case, si

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This one time, at band camp, Thomas Bushnell BSG said: >> Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > In any case, since the latest gnome has also disabled the help system >> > (or rather, th

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-02 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Thomas Bushnell BSG said: > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In any case, since the latest gnome has also disabled the help system > > (or rather, the most up-to-date manual is the accessibility guide for > > 2.

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In any case, since the latest gnome has also disabled the help system > (or rather, the most up-to-date manual is the accessibility guide for > 2.8 and the user's guide for 2.6), where has the feature moved to this > week

the latest gnome

2006-03-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
The latest gnome (2.12.2 according to Desktop>About GNOME) has, like all previous "up"grades, disabled my preference for emacs-style editing in forms, etc. It used to be in the Keyboard Preferences dialog, but as I have become accustomed to seeing, the latest version has removed